Season To Risk is the luckiest band alive. They have survived van crashes,
studio floods, a desert tour during the 98 heatwave, evictions, and several
line-up changes, and they continue to push the envelope of underground
music. Since 1989, Season To Risk has remained a rock band that is
constantly changing, avoiding trends, and challenging themselves and their
audience to continue evolving. Members of the Season To Risk collective are
involved with several other bands including: Roman Numerals, The Great Fire
of Sixteen Sixty-Six, Vortech, Kingdom of Snakes, Stella Link, Dirtnap,
From Autumn To Ashes, Shiner, Overstep and Olympic Size.

Shortly after getting together in art school, they won a 'Battle of the
Bands' which brought them into the studio for the first time. The only copy
of the resulting demo cassette that was actually mailed out ended up in the
offices of Red Decibel records in Minneapolis, MN, who as luck would have
it, were starting to work in conjunction with Colombia records. Before they
knew what hit them, the band was signed to Columbia records, recording more
demos at Sony Studios in NYC, and then living in Chicago, IL to record their
self-titled first album at Soundworks Studio.

The band is known for their constant touring across North America; returning
briefly to their hometown of Kansas City, MO for a few days or weeks,
sometimes on the road 8 - 10 months out of the year. Odds are high when you
spend most of your time driving that vehicles will break down day after day,
vans will have blowouts, wheels will fall off, drivers will fall asleep,
engines (and people) will crack or burst into flames, vans will flip over in
the middle of a frozen highway and 22-foot RVs will roll backwards with no
brakes down the hills of Seattle, WA, and that's exactly what happens, year
after year. How they've survived is a long story.

They lived at Bisi Studios, NYC for the Summer of 1994 recording their
second album In a Perfect World. The music was a darker, more complex
collection of songs, and the album was received with rave reviews from fans,
and puzzled looks from the people at Colombia records. There was no place on
the radio for music like this yet, and exactly what category in the music
store was this CD supposed to be displayed in? By chance, the band was heard
by someone at Sony who was looking for a band to play during a scene in the
film 'Strange Days'. Within days the band was in Hollywood, playing the song
'Undone' over and over again for two weeks, living in a trailer on set. For
the next year, the band was in a different city every night, which led to
total exhaustion by the end of a summer 1995 arena tour with Corrosion of
Conformity and Monster Magnet, resulting in the cancellation of their
European tour scheduled for the Winter of 1996. The band was then dropped
from Columbia records. And the bass player quit.

Pooling their resources, the band spent most of the next two years building
Trainwreck Sound Studios in Kansas City, MO. As floors, walls and ceilings
were built, new Season To Risk songs were written, members worked with their
other bands, and recording started at Trainwreck, including work by Casket
Lottery, The Farewell Bend, Dirtnap, Iron Rite Mangle, Gunfighter and the
Pornhuskers. They built their dream studio from the ground up: a 15 x 20
control room, equipped with a 1974 24-channel Auditronics (Quadrophonic!)
console and a 2-inch tape machine, a 30 x 50 foot tracking room with antique
oak floors, and a huge apartment/rehearsal studio upstairs on the second
floor. In October 1998, shortly after the studio officially opened to the
public, a sudden flash flood of the Missouri river totalled everything in
the neighborhood in 15 minutes, destroying the building, their tour RV in
the parking lot, their bank account and almost everything else. They're
lucky noone was killed. Luck never gives, it only lends. And the river
takes. And then another bass player quit.

Fortunately, the third album was finished prior to the flood, and the band
was able to wade through the five-foot deep freezing, muddy water in total
darkness out of the building to safety. Unfortunately, they discovered that
the album Men Are Monkeys, Robots Win (Thick Records) was printed
'out-of-phase', making the songs sound hollowed-out. Some might see this as
a blessing in disguise, which adds to the cryptic messages hidden the album,
that can be decoded with a simple modification of the listener's stereo
wiring. And then yet another bass player quit.

Legendary punk rock drummer/producer Bill Stevenson (Black Flag, Decendents)
has always been a friend to Season To Risk, and has brought the band on tour
with ALL several times. This led to the recording of the album The
Shattering in 2000 at the Blasting Room in Ft. Collins, CO and its release
on Owned & Operated records in 2001. The Shattering album is more diverse
than ever, fusing elements from all of the band's previous work and some new
experimentation into twelve heavy, melodic songs. After a tour to support
the album, the drummer relocated to Boston - and returns to the midwest for
the occasional tour. Band members remain busy with multiple projects as
Season To Risk rests, recoups, and regroups.